LOOK what i got!
{this page was bookmarked}
“elle- humour” a picture box book by julie doucet
she has an amazing since of humor tossed in with a delicious dose of creative energy making for one heck of an amazing valentines day present!
Thanks Jonathan.
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look what i gave:
a limited edition print from little paper planes by hannah stouffer
{jonathan trimmed his beard recently, and i plan to cut my hair…seemed appropriate since hair has been the topic of alot of our conversations lately}
happy valentines day!
here are the images of the ice storm we had earlier this week. we are still very far from having cleaned up the mess of branches that have fallen everywhere. These pictures depict the beautiful side of the storm…i tried to leave the nasty side out (i think for the sake of optimism).
the best form of this is face to face
its likely that she wont be able to cook any time soon, as most of our homes here dont have any electricity from the crazy ice storm we just had. i will be posting some images of this a little later as soon as we can make it back home (from jonathan’s parents) and get my camera equipment. His parents house regained electricity last night…but we were making it just fine without it because of their amazing wood stove!
we will be spending the entire day today back at our house making logs out of our beautiful trees that have all fallen apart on our lawn {and road}….
today is my daughter’s 6th birthday. theres nothing more true than the cliche of time flying, and days like this only justify it happening.
happy birthday raine!
as my my husband usually sits in the evenings and reads, i try to take some time to draw after the girls have gone off to bed. One particular evening he was reading the brothers karamazov (for the second time), by dostoyevsky.
I asked him to tell me the last line that he read in hopes of some sort of inspiration. So he read: “how can you talk of joy…coughing as though you would tear yourself to pieces.”
For some reason, that i cant remember why, i drew a depressed-looking, weak man with his shirt torn to shreads…
recent photos taken of dasien being gentle with ezmah.
jonathan.
{i should have watered that plant more…}
jonathan had the ever-so-brilliant idea to wrap our gifts in newspaper this year!
but wait…we arent just wrapping them in newspaper…but beautiful newspaper.
the new york times newspaper to be exact. have you ever seen their images? usually stunning.
but wait….we arent just wrapping them in beautiful paper. we are wrapping them in beautiful images that give you a hint as to what’s inside of them!
this is so much fun, and not to mention eco-friendly. well, as eco-friendly as newsprint can be. atleast we arent wasting money on rolls of christmas paper when we had an abundance of beautiful newspaper in the art studio just waiting to be used.
merry christmas to you all!
our recent trip to the fayetteville public library with our little family. their children’s section is breath-taking if youve never been. our girls always love it.
drawing of a home that i did a few weeks ago. sorry that my posting has slowed down. im going to blame the time of year, things will pick back up again soon! hope youre all enjoying your holidays!
by the way…the title is a bob dylan quote…
raine has two imaginary friends that she has known since she was two:. dee-dee (the nice one) and tada (pronounced Tah-dah, like the word you used to say as a kid when you finished something amazing; shes the misfit of the two imaginary girls).
the other morning, dee-dee temporarily came to life in the form of a shadow. raine drew her on our frosty glass door and we were pleasantly surprised to see the shadow ghost on the wall next to her. so when i got the camera out, she grabbed dee-dee’s imaginary shadow hand, then turned to her and said “smile dee-dee”.
here is one of raine’s (my 5 year old daughter’s) pieces that she recently completed on a piece of paper that i was hoping to use…{oh well}…she probably did more justice to it than i could have im sure. i couldnt be upset with her when i saw this precious elephant on a cart. raine creates artwork that is truly inspiring to me. im thinking of making her her own blog for christmas.
*artist note: she says that she made the trunk too long, hence the black mark on the end of it….that is NOT scribbling.
this is what i did at work yesterday inside of my 2009 moleskine planner {given to me on my birthday from my lovely husband}, unfortunately though, this is not what i was paid to do…
my husband was up nearly all night working on a new design for my links page. its worth looking at! he is the heart and soul behind my glorious website…{thanks}
mountain of cloth diapers and perrodin clothing…good thing these have been folded since the photo. you would think that by the size of this pile that we dont do laundry all that often, but this is the result of maybe 2-3 days of waiting. the cloth diapers make up most of the volume, but dont let that be discouraging to those of you considering their use!
